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Oberheim ob-1 Black Friday pricing from GForce Software takes 60% off this synth plugin, dropping it to $47.99 until Dec 1, 2026.
It is GForce's emulation of the 1978 Oberheim OB-1, built in collaboration with Oberheim. The hardware was the first programmable monophonic synthesizer, designed by Tom Oberheim, and it brought preset memory to analogue synthesis.
The maker pitches the plugin at techno and electro producers, underground artists, composers and anyone after vintage analogue tones.
GForce describes the sound as sitting between two icons: as full as a Minimoog, as aggressive and snarling as an MS-20. The filter runs as 2-pole or 4-pole, and the maker says the resonance screeches.
Waveshaping adds another route to rougher tones, and the plugin has a new waveform with waveshape modulation on top of the original design.
The hardware was monophonic. The plugin gives you Mono Unison, Legato and Poly modes with up to 16 voices.
Here is what GForce built around the original signal path:
X-Modifier is GForce's modulation system. It lets you modulate most parameters directly through an X-LFO and X-ADSR section.
The modulation paths are already set up, so you skip the routing and go straight to shaping the sound.
The maker says this is how the plugin builds complex but musical patches while keeping the core tone true to the original.
The plugin ships with over 300 new presets from sound designers and artists including Zardonic, Alex Jann, Lightbath, Polydata, GEOsynth, Koryu and Boudicca Bass Service. GForce says the patches run from edgy and modern to classic, with the kind of recreations you would expect from the company.
The preset browser offers extensive tagging, sorting and search, so you can organise sounds around your own workflow. The UI is fully resizable.
Yes. The GForce Oberheim OB-1 synth plugin is 60% off for Black Friday, which brings it to $47.99. The deal ends Dec 1, 2026.
You get the OB-1 emulation with over 300 presets, a preset browser, a high-pass filter, chorus, delay and reverb, four macros, an arpeggiator and sequencer, X-Modifier modulation, and a fully resizable interface.
Yes. The 1978 hardware was monophonic, but GForce added Poly mode with up to 16 voices, along with Mono Unison and Legato modes, so chords and layered leads are possible.
X-Modifier is GForce's modulation system. Its X-LFO and X-ADSR section can modulate almost every parameter directly, with the modulation paths already set up, so you skip manual routing.
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